Copyright © 2020 by Sierra Crane Murdoch
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Portions of this work were originally published in different form in High Country News and in the electronic versions of The Atlantic (theatlantic.com) and The New Yorker (newyorker.com). Photograph on this page by Kalen Goodluck used by permisison of Kalen Goodluck.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Murdoch, Sierra Crane, author.
Title: Yellow Bird: oil, murder, and a woman’s search for justice in Indian country / by Sierra Crane Murdoch.
Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019022833 (print) | LCCN 2019022834 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399589157 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399589164 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Yellow Bird, Lissa. | Clarke, Kristopher. | Missing persons—Investigation—North Dakota—Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. | Criminal investigation—United States—Citizen participation. | Oil industry workers—North Dakota—Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. | Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota. | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.)—Social conditions.
Classification: LCC HV6762.U5 M78 2020 (print) | LCC HV6762.U5 (ebook) |DDC 364.152/3092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022833
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022834
Ebook ISBN 9780399589164
Book design by Susan Turner, adapted for ebook
Cover design: Anna Kochman
Cover photographs: © Kristin Barker
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